Rain Wu

b. 1987, Tainan, TW Rain Wu (b. 1987, Tainan) is a Taiwanese artist and architect based in London. Her work is conceptually driven and materialises in different forms and scales, from drawing, sculpture, and food performance to architectural installation.

She works with the temporality of perishable materials to instigate discussions around our manifold relationships with nature. Following the geographic, political, cosmological, and microbial traces of living materials, her work investigates the interconnection between the consumption of food, digestion of cultures, charting of lands, and recalling of myths.

She graduated from Royal College of Art and University College London. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Sharjah Biennial (2017), Taipei Biennial (2016), The Palestinian Museum (2017), London Design Biennale (2016), Istanbul Design Biennale (2020), Hong-Gah Museum (2023), and Manar Abu Dhabi (2023). She was in residence at the Design Museum London (2016), Fondation Thalie (2018), Jan van Eyck (2018–19), and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2024). She is currently a lecturer at University of the Arts London and Goldsmiths University.